There is no hero but Ali

Author: Abd al-Ilah Benarafa

The writer takes us on his gnostic project to the first century AH, through a new narrative architecture with a major pivotal character. The novel begins with the birth of Ali ibn Abi Talib inside the Kaaba, then the Prophet's guardianship of him, and his learning of prophetic wisdom, so the young man grows up with the ethics of chivalry. After the Hijra, he married Fatimah al-Zahra and had Hasan and Husayn with her. He lived in great sorrow after the death of the Prophet and then Fatimah, and he stood teaching, giving fatwas, and judging in matters that were difficult for people, so it was confirmed that he was the gate to the city of knowledge. He lived through the Rightly Guided Caliphate and then took responsibility for it during the Great Fitna.

Away from sectarian disputes, and sectarian and political alignments, this novel brings the reader closer to Imam Ali as a human being, and answers many questions that people have always asked about him, and why he was distinguished by this exceptional status in the history of Islam, and why the inheritance of wisdom and chivalry came to him, and why Muslims throughout the ages have been keen on connecting the chains of the prophetic lineage and spiritual guardianship to him, and how necessary it is today for this great man to be treated fairly, and for them to reconcile around him.